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Monday 15 January 2018

TOWARDS A MARINE SPATIAL PLAN FOR IRELAND



A roadmap for the development of Ireland’s first marine spatial plan - Towards a Marine Spatial Plan for Ireland was published recently by Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Eoghan Murphy and Minister Damien English. Marine Spatial Planning is a way of looking at how we use the marine area and planning how best to use it into the future. MSP will try to balance the different demands for using the sea including the need to protect the marine environment. It's about planning when and where human activities take place at sea. It’s about ensuring these activities are as efficient and sustainable as possible. Minister Murphy said that “Ireland is a maritime nation and we derive so much of our cultural, social and economic identity from our relationship with the seas that surround us. We are fortunate to have one of the largest and richest marine resources of all EU Member States. The Government has set out clear and ambitious objectives under Harnessing Our Ocean Wealth (HOOW) - Ireland’s integrated marine plan - to enable our marine potential to be realised.  For example, we aim to double the value of our ocean wealth to 2.4% of GDP by 2030 and increase the turnover from our ocean economy to exceed €6.4bn by 2020’.The MSP for Ireland, which will be developed over the next 3 years, will provide a coherent framework in which specific sectoral policies and objectives can be realised. For further information visithttp://www.housing.gov.ie/planning/marine-spatial-planning/marine-strategy/towards-marine-spatial-plan-ireland-roadmap

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